My goal is to achieve a little less injustice in Uruguay, to help the most vulnerable and to leave behind a political… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
“In these our cowardly times, we deny the grandeur of the Universal, and assert and glorify our local Bigotries, and so we… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I abhor the word "consumer." Consumers, unlike citizens, have no implicit duties, obligations, or responsibilities to the common good. It's a degrading… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Mr. de Pinto, the dog who protects sheep quickly learns how to direct them, and it becomes a habit. The people have… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Fine buildings, fine pictures and books and everything that is beautiful are certainly signs of civilization. But an even better sign is… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“Moral elevation" describes the feeling of being uplifted by an act of uncommon goodness. Elevation brings out what Abraham Lincoln called "the… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Not only have individual politicians and celebrities personally condemned your automobiles for being too messy, noisy, and harmful to the common good,… — Steven Crowder Copy Share Image
Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
A consensus on realising the goal of universal suffrage is not unattainable if we bear the common good in mind, move a… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
This is the rule of most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the seeking of the common good… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“We seemed about to enter an Olympian age in this country, brains and intellect harnessed to great force, the better to define… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Holistic, unconditional love, agape, is the unity in which duality disappears. It is as if a certain internal boundary has vanished. With… — Kabir Edmund Helminski Copy Share Image
I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass. — Laozi Copy Share Image
No one should be forced to violate one's conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because… — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Everything I've done feels like I'm just as much a part of it as if I was the producer. It's still the… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image